The roll-call of Westminster Abbey (1906) (14781506561)

Identifier: rollcallofwestmi00smit (find matches)
Title: The roll-call of Westminster Abbey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, A. Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder, & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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ng, thus dying beforetheir royal nephew, Henry of Lancasters accession. In herwill she desired to be buried in St. Edmunds Chapel, nearthe grave of her lord and husband, and ordered that mybody be covered with a black cloth with a white crossand an escutcheon of my arms in the middle of the saidcross, with four tapers round it and four full mortarsbeing at the four corners. In the same chapel two oftheir lineal descendants were interred. The one, MaryStafford (d. 1694), also lost her husband, William Howard,Viscount Stafford, by a violent death, for he was attaintedfor high treason under Charles II. and died on the scaffold,protesting his innocence to the last. The widow wasafterwards created a Countess in her own right, and herson received the Earldom of Stafford, but the title becameextinct after the death of the fourth Earl (1762) whosetablet disfigures the ancient wall arcading ; upon it arethe arms of his ancestor, Thomas of Woodstock. TheViscounts attainder was reversed in 1824.
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RICHARD II. AT WESTMINSTER 53 Richard II. was the first of our Kings who honoured hisfavourites by ordering their interment in the Abbey. Up tillnow only those connected with the monastery or with theroyal family had been buried here, but from this time weshall find that persons connected with the court were ad-mitted within these sacred precincts, apparently without anyopposition from the authorities, and as years went on anAbbey grave or monument became simply a question of thepayment of fees. Richards first experiment in this direc-tion was, however, an unfortunate one, and roused muchopposition in the shape of covert murmuring from thepopulace, and remonstrances from the Abbot and monks,whose scruples were overborne by gifts of money andvestments. This was the burial, within the Chapel of theKings, and close to Edward I., of Richards treasurer, Johnof Waltham (d. 1295), Bishop of Salisbury. The Kingcommemorated the Bishop by a fine brass, which representshim in his robes with mitr